LSU Football: Constructing perfect 10-game schedule for the Tigers

Games 4-6 of LSU football’s perfect schedule

Not all tough games on the schedule can come with extra preparation like Alabama (the entire offseason to prepare) and the next game on the perfect slate (bye week) so Texas A&M will just have to follow up a couple of cupcakes.

The Aggies return Kellen Mond for his senior year at quarterback and he could be one of the best in the SEC. He’ll have plenty of talent around him and if the defense can figure out how to replace a handful of stars under Mike Elko, the Aggies will be serious SEC contenders.

Maybe we’ll see another seven-overtime thriller.

This may seem like the second game in an incredibly tough stretch, which it is, but with how loaded LSU’s schedule is, it would be ideal to get the Gators after a bye week — which is where I slot their first one of the season.

Florida returns Joe Burrow 2.0 candidate in Kyle Trask and an offense that should surely improve with the second-year starting quarterback running the show.

Dan Mullen is building something special in Gainesville and if LSU is going to be ready for this one, it’ll need that extra week to prepare.

LSU might as well get all the ‘tough but favorable’ games out of the way before the final four-game stretch so I’m putting Mississippi State right here following matchups against Florida and Texas A&M.

Mississippi State just fired Joe Moorhead and is under the direction of Mike Leach and Stanford transfer quarterback KJ Costello. The Bulldogs’ offense should be more legit under the air-raid expert but don’t expect the defense to be elite.

This could wind up being a shootout, but LSU should win.